Refrigerator-car.



PATENTBD APR'. 26, 1904.

J. s. BAsEAw. RBPRIGERATOR GAR. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1908.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JULIAN sEAY BAsHAw, oE GAINEsvILLE, ELoRiDA.

RE'FmGERAToR-CAR.

:SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 758,406, dated April26, 1904.

Application tiled September l1, 1903.' Serial No. 172,752. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: l

` Be it known that I, JULIAN SEAY BAsHAw,

a citizen of the United States, and aresident'A of Gainesville, in thecounty of Alachua and State of Florida, have invented a new and ImprovedRefrigerator-Car, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to an improvement in refrigerating-cars whichenables me conveniently to adapt a car of ordinary construction to useas a refrigerator, this end being attained, generally speaking, byproviding one or more ice-tanks of certain peculiar construction whichare capable of being placed in the car Vthrough the usual door thereof.

The invention also involves novel means for circulating air through thecar, all of vwhich will be hereinafter fully set forth.

This specification is an exact description of one example ofmyinvention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof. y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention with parts broken away.Fig. 2 is a crosssection thereof, and Fig. 3 is a detail `perspective ofone of the ice-tanks.

10 indicates the ice-tanks, which are constructed, preferably, of metaland provided with a rack 11 in their bottoms 'and a grating or inclosingframe 12 surroundingA them and serving not only to protect the tanks,but to1 permit the circulation .of air freely around the sides thereof.As best shown in Fig. 3, said tanks are provided on their upper edgeswith guides 14, in which is arranged a sliding cover 15, this coverserving to close the opening 16 in the top of the tank, through whichopening the ice is admitted. In order to facilitate the introduction ofthe iceinto the tanks, the roof of the car is provided with two openings17, one for each tank, and a non-conducting closure 18 is fitted to eachopening.

19 indicates drip-cocks, which are applied to the bottom of the tanks 10and which empty into drip-pans 2O in the bottom of the car. From thesepans tubes 21 lead, respectively, to opposite ends of the car to carryoff the coming air is passed into immediate associal tion with the coldwater formed by the melting' of the ice, and said air is to a certainextent cooled before it is brought into contact with the ice-tanks. Thevalves 19 have operating-arms 24 attached thereto, and said arms are inconnection With rods 25, which extend up to the upper portions of thetanks to facilitate the operation of the valves 19, not only from theioor of the car, but by enabling an attendant to reach through theopening 17.

26 indicates a brace which extends transversely across the car at eachend thereof to hold the ice-boxes removably in place.

Passing Ythrough the roof of the car is an air-outlet pipe 27, providedwith a valve or cock 28, having an operating device 29 passing downwardinto the interior of the car to facilitate the adjustment of the cock28, and

by means of this cock the flow of air through the outlet-pipe 27 may beregulated at will.

30 indicates a cowl which is Inounted to turn freely on the upper end ofthe outletpipe 27, so that the cowl will always discharge oppositely tothe direction in which the train is moving or to leeward of a breezewhich maf be blowing when'the train is at a standsti With the carconstructed as described the warm air as it venters the pipes 22 iscooled by the drainage in the pipes 21 and then passes under the tanks10. After circulating around these tanks it passes into contact with thecontents of the car and is finally drawn out through the discharge-pipe27. A continuous circulation is thus maintained, the warm air and gasesgenerated by the perishable contents of the car\be,ing steadilywithdrawn and its place taken by the cold air drawn in through the pipes22.

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31 indicates the door of the car, which is mounted to slide on thesupporting-rollers 32, arranged longitudinally along the side of thecar, and 36 indicates any suitable lock therefor.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of myinvention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spiritand scope thereof. Hence I consider myself entitled to all suchvariations as may lie within the intent of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination of a railway-car, arefrigerator-tank in each end thereof, drip-pipes passing through thecar-bottom respectively below the refrigerator-tanks and extending pasteach other respectively to the opposite ends of the car, andair-circulating pipes passed through the drip-pipes and leading from theatmosphere into the car below the refrigerator-boxes.

2. The combination of a railway-car, a refrigerator-tank in each endthereof, drip-pipes passing through the car-bottom respectively belowthe refrigerator-tanks and extending past each other respectively to theopposite ends of the car, air-circulating pipes passed through thedrip-pipesand leading from the atmosphere into the car below therefrigerator-boxes, the said drip-pipes having traps therein, and meanscontrolling the air-flow through the air-pipes.

3. The combination of a railway-car having an opening in the topthereof, a removable closure for said opening, a tank located in the carbelow the opening, a removable closure for the top of the tank, a valvecommanding a drip-outlet from the lower part of the tank and avalve-actuating means connected to the valve and extending upwardoutside of the tank adjacent to the upper end thereof and to the openingin the top of the car for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULIAN SEAY BASHAW.

'Witnessesz i M. S. (lnnvs, FERDINAND BAYER.

